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No. 502,855. 4 Patented Aug. 8,1893;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. FISHEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOUTONNPERE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,855, dated August8, 1893.

Application filed May 26, 1893. Serial No. 475,585. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. FISHEL, of New York, in the county andState of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inBoutonnieres, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe a boutonniere embodying my improvement and then pointout the novel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional side View of aboutonniere embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of astud. Fig. 3 is a sectional side view illustrating a modification. Fig.4 is a sectional side view illustrating another modification.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates a stem or post.

B designates a shoe or back plate.

0 designates a socket.

D designates a nipple and E designates an artificial flower.

The stem or post is longitudinally tapering toward the front end. Thesocket is made independently in the form of a plate andis slipped ontothe tapering portion of the stem or post. It may be driven on or it maybe provided internally with a screwthread to fit the screwthread on thetapering portion of the stem or post, as shown in Fig. 3. Inside theflower, the thin end of the stem is provided with a lateral projection.This may be made by driving upon it a plate F, or, if it isscrewthreaded, a nut may be applied, as shown in Fig. 3. A projectionmay be formed by bending the extremity of the stem or post, as, forinstance, by splitting the post and bending its bifurcat-e portionslaterally, as represented in Fig. 4, or a projection may be formed byupsetting the end of the post or clinching an extra piece on to thesame.

The shoe may be made by bending the rear extremity of the stem or postinto'a spiral, or a separate plate may be driven on the stem or post. Inthe latter case, the shoe may be driven onto the stem, especially if thestem or post is tapered rearwardly, and afterward the extremity of thestem or post may be upset or clinched outside the shoe plate.

What I claim as my invention,.and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a boutonniere, the combination with a flower, of a stud having astem vor post tapering toward its forward end, a socket consisting of anindependent plate fitted to the stem or post, so that the stem or postwill extend upward of it to form a nipple and a lateral projectionapplied to the nipple inside the flower, substantially as specified.

2. In a boutonniere, the combination with a flower, of a rearwardlytapering stem or post and a shoe consisting of an independent platefitted thereto, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. FISHEL.

Witnesses:

ANTHONY GREF, ROBT. A. KELLOND.

